Whose Literacy is it Anyway? Developing a Librarian-lead Honours College Literacy Course at Thompson Rivers University

Library scholarship enumerates the limitations of the information literacy one-shot model. It persists not because of its pedagogical strengths, but because of the ambiguous role of academic librarians in the university and the growing need to outsource basic research instruction in the face of precarious and over-worked adjunct faculty across disciplines. That said, librarians are well placed to deliver robust Interdisciplinary literacy instruction. This 20-minute talk will reflect on the issues with the one-shot model and outline Dr. Mitchell’s rational for an interdisciplinary literacy course that has been accepted by the new TRU Honours College program.